16.10.09

Some development on this "playing around with atraditional pattern"- piece...There are dark grey blots on the linen patch with theOctober embroidery (hardly visible here, though), producedwith tea and iron dye, a method I stumpled upon last month.Here`s some more of it, on cotton:

It´s done with a small amount of big leafed blacktea and an iron-pill, just putting boiling waterover it all and letting it sit for two hours or so.The iron seems to have the effect of encouraging ratherdistinct blots just around the tea leaves.

"All things on earth point home in old October;sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences,hunters to field and hollow and the long voice ofhounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."

(Thomas Wolfe)

Kommentare:

Old October does pull one home. Do you follow India's blog - not all who wander are lost? She dyes fabrics with natural things like leaves all the time. I love the effects you are getting here with the tea leaves and iron.